On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> There are some rambling about this in the fancyhdr documentation. In
> the meantime, I asked on compt.text.tex.
I saw the following response in comp.text.tex.
The suggested tex macros indeed work (note that it defines speaker as a
command, whereas hollywood.cls defines it as an environment, but the former
does makes more sense).
The only problem is that it doesn't prohibits breaking of sentences in a
dialogue, though it discourage that.
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Subject: Re: Continuation marks (cont'd)
Date: 05/12/2000
Author: Donald Arseneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Marc Lasgouttes) writes:
> There is a LaTeX class (hollywood.cls) bundled with LyX which is
> designed to write hollywood scripts. While it is good, it comes with the
> following disclaimer:
>
> Always preview the script to find where to insert page breaks. Speakers'
> lines should NEVER break in mid-sentence. If a speaker's lines continue
> over a page break, repeat the Speaker title followed by (Cont'd).
You call this "good"? I can't imagine writing a document
class that did not perform such a fundamental action.
> LaTeX/LyX. While not breaking at mid-sentence may be difficult (is it
> possible?),
With great difficulty, but I have never seen such a rule.
Just that each speech by a speaker should stay together,
but if it *must* be broken, then it should have a
continuation title.
The whole document should be in typewriter.
Fancyhdr.sty provides continuation titles.
Without fancyhdr, here is something I made a long time
ago. Don't know if it really works now.
% Repeated in-text headings; shown here for speakers in a
script.
\def\speaker{\@startsection{speaker}{99}{\z@}%
{-.5ex \@plus -.2ex \@minus -.2ex}%
{1\p@ \@plus 1\p@ \@minus1\p@}%
{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\centering}}
\newcounter{speaker}% not used
\def\thespeaker{\arabic{speaker}}
\def\speakermark#1{\markboth{#1}{#1}}
\def\ps@speakers{% based on "plain" page style
\let\@oddhead\@empty\def\@oddfoot{\reset@font\hfil\thepage
\hfil}\let\@evenhead\@empty\let\@evenfoot\@oddfoot
\let\@mkboth\markboth
\let\chaptermark\@gobble \let\sectionmark\@gobble
}
\pagestyle{speakers}
\def\dep@save{\@tempdima\dp\@cclv}
\output\expandafter{\expandafter\dep@save\the\output
\ifnum\outputpenalty>\m@ne
\centerline{\normalfont\normalsize \leftmark
~(\continuedname)}% \kern-\prevdepth\kern\@tempdima
\nobreak
\vskip 1\p@ \@plus\p@ \@minus\p@
\fi}
\def\continuedname{continued}% allow multilingual
\raggedbottom
\advance\topskip 0pt plus 6pt
\interlinepenalty 300
Donald Arseneau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
